I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if it had some decent retail success in the first week or so, just based on the IP. But for a game like this, selling a decent number early on isn't enough. Remember that Avengers sold respectably the first few weeks, but still caused massive losses for Square Enix because the game cost tons to develop and keep up. A game like this needs high sales and continued engagement (ie microtransactions). So don't assume the game is a success if it is #1 on ...
Sigh. The issue here is always online. It's fine to oppose both digital games and always online, but you need to make your criticisms of each issue be relevant and make sense. Plenty of always online games also have a physical version, and buying that version doesn't keep the end user from experiencing the issues that almost invariably plague those games.
Lol okay. If we mean "about two decades" or "almost two decades," I'm on board.
So are we shifting the narrative from "anyone who criticizes Palworld is a salty Pokemon fanboy and Nintendo bootlicker" to "anyone who criticizes Palworld is a PlayStation fanboy"?
I wouldn't say they have been bad that long. In the early to mid 2000s before they turned to annualization and then live service they actually released some pretty solid games. Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory is an iconic stealth game, the Rainbow Six Vegas Games were great, and Far Cry 2 was criminally underrated (if you haven't played it, it came before Far Cry become just another "Ubisoft Formula" collect-a-thon). Heck, whatever your criticisms of the original Assassin's ...
Is this an homage to the 99 rare candies trick near Cinnabar Island?
@dumahim
You prove yourself wrong within your own comment. You are confusing a patch for a PS4 game that makes the game run better on PS5 (Sony has never charged for this) with a PS4 game getting a native release on PS5 (Sony has charged for this new version of the game). A great example to illustrate is Ghost of Tsushima. Sony patched the PS4 version to unlock the framerate, letting it run at 60 fps on PS5, which was. Then they also released a native PS5 version with addit...
Bingo. It's nice that someone else sees the obvious pattern in these scenarios.
Okay, I'll assume good faith and bite.
You're a writer with an established reputation. Let's assume you start hearing that a writer on a newer, smaller site has been writing some articles suspiciously similar to yours. You check a few out and see that they are pretty similar, but you give the benefit of the doubt and think "well, this writer could have had similar sources, maybe even some of the same ones, and my commentary on it was limited and straightfor...
Sigh. Should I assume you are as confused as you are pretending to be and explain? I guess so, even though I'm pretty sure you understand perfectly. I never really understand why people think they seem funnier or that they "own" people by pretending to lack rational capacity.
No, death threats aren't fine. If you take them seriously, report them to whatever platform they were posted on/sent from, and report them to the relevant legal authorities. Just don&...
Step 1: People express legitimate criticism of game.
Step 2: Devs and Gaming Press identify a few random people on Twitter or forums who have sent the devs threats.
Step 3: Devs/Media lump the entire group of people making the legitimate criticism with the few random people making threats and treat them as if they are a single group.
Step 4: Devs avoid addressing the real criticism by denouncing the threats and saying generic statements about how legitimate criticis...
Except for you repeating the lie about charging for patches, I agree with your comment. Kind of crazy that PS5 is selling better now than PS4 did at times when PS4 had a confirmed roster of incoming, single player focused exclusives, while the future for PS5 games is hazy at best. We heard so much about the switch to live service and the big investment in Bungie in order to gain their expertise in making those, but now Bungie can't even seem to manage their own live service game, and it&#...
Gosh I miss the early days of gaming podcasts in the mid/late 2000s. I was in high school and had not yet ever been in a position to afford all games or consoles that I wanted, and the game journalists and critics at that time had such a deep knowledge of games from basically the NES on.
Now when I read or hear a gaming journalist/influencer/YouTuber it's usually patently obvious that they have pretty limited knowledge of games as a whole. Frequently, they seem to have ...
And the idiot gamers who say they hate them but instantly attack any multiplayer game that isn't run as a live service by saying the devs "sent it out to die" or "abandoned" it.
Not to mention that the most common complaint these days with multiplayer games is that there aren't frequent enough content updates. Gamers can no longer just play a multiplayer game because it has good gameplay and the game is balanced well, etc. Gamers will actually play games with inferior gameplay as long as there are more things to "earn," a more heinous progression system, a "roadmap" of content, and frequent superficial changes to the maps to keep them "in...
@jznrpg
My favorite part of your comment is where you kept referring to Indiana Jones as "Indians Jones."
Lol unfortunately some people won't accept facts until someone with the right credibility says them. It's like being unwilling to accept that 2+2=4 unless someone with an advanced degree in math confirms it.
I'm fine with the first person. If it were all in third person you know everyone would just compare it to Uncharted (which would be a full circle moment since so many people compared Uncharted to Indiana Jones).
Lol now they don't even have to do that because kids now don't play games, they just play one F2P game (usually Fortnite). So you just get them gift cards for microtransactions for their birthday or whenever they get a good report card or whatever parents do now and they're good.
It's always fun when someone's comment is so inaccurate it reveals that they fundamentally misunderstand some of the concepts they are talking about.